Video: Cub Swanson on trash talk and waiting for title shots

DUBLIN – Cub Swanson raised a few eyebrows after he beat Jeremy Stephens a few weeks back.

After his win at UFC Fight Night 42, Swanson said he wasn’t going to beg for a title shot. Simply put, if the UFC thought he deserved one, he’d get one. And if not, well …

Swanson thinks he should get the winner of featherweight champ Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes – but that fight is on hold thanks to an Aldo injury.

That puts him in a sticky situation. Should he wait out Aldo’s injury for that fight to happen? Should he take another fight in the meantime? And if so, against whom?

In the video above, hear what Swanson had to say about his current situation – and some recent trash talk thrown his way when he arrived in Dublin for UFC Fight Night 46, which is headlined by fellow featherweight Conor McGregor.

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